FNA - Islamic Republic opposition media run by foreign states, including Saudi-funded Persian-language TV channel Iran International and BBC Persia have launched a tireless disinformation campaign in the past two weeks to incite the Iranian public into protest rallies against the Tehran and Beijing's draft 25-year strategic cooperation agreement. Social ...

Reuters - The fast-spreading coronavirus has killed at least 210 people across Iran, the BBCs Persian service reported on Friday, citing hospital sources, far more than reported by the Health Ministry which put the number at 34. Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur rejected the BBC report in a tweet. Even at 34, Iran has had the highest death rate ...

MNA Iran's Ambassador to UK Hamid Baeedinejad said that the Institute observing visual media, commonly known as Ofcom (British Office of Communications), has confirmed receiving Iran's complaint against hostile Persian-language networks. He tweeted on Wednesday that the Institute, tasked with observing visual media dubbed Ofcom has announced its ...

Tasnim The Iranian Embassy in London filed a formal complaint with the Office of Communication (Ofcom) against adversary Persian-language TV channels based in the United Kingdom for provoking violence in the Islamic Republic, the ambassador said. In a post on his Twitter account on Friday, Hamid Baeidinejad said the embassy has sent a formal letter ...

MNA The Iranian ambassador to the UK has slammed the London-based BBC Persian for airing a program legitimizing anti-Iran US sanctions. The project that the BBC Persian has begun under the pretext of financial corruption of a Monaco-based firm, although can be sued in the court, is aimed at something else, Hamid Baeidinejad, the Iranian Ambassador ...

MNA The Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baedinejad has posted a BBC World Services report on the effects of US sanctions on Iranian economy, lashing out at the Persian version of the same report for broadcasting fake news on Iran. While the UK-based Persian TV channels have focused their reporting on giving a negative image of Iranian ...

MNA Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad, in a tweet on Wed., reacted to the distortion of his speech by the BBC, saying Iran never entered a proxy war with Saudi Arabia. "There is nothing more despicable than what BBC Persian language news channel that claims to be professional, did distorting the words of Iranian ambassador to London,...

The Guardian | Saeed Kamali Dehghan: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian womanserving a five-year jail sentencein Tehran, has been told to expect another conviction after she went to court to face new charges, her husband has said. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 39, who has been in prison for two years, was taken to court on Saturday for spreading ...

IFP- Russias Ambassador to Tehran Levan Jagarian says the Persian Service of the BBC is blatantly meddling in Irans internal affairs. Speaking in an interview with IRNA on Sunday at the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Jagarian said the Kremlin condemns the BBCs interference. The Islamic Republic of Iran has blocked the channels website because it ...

AP-- An Iranian court order has frozen the local assets of over 150 people associated with the BBC's Farsi-language service, the British broadcaster said on Tuesday, the latest effort by Tehran to crack down on the service's popular newscasts. Iranian officials and state media did not immediately report on the order, which the BBC said banned current ...

Tehran, June 7, The Iran Project - Coinciding with the 27th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic, BBC Persian TV released a report claiming to have documents showing secret contact between Imam Khomeini and U.S. presidents before the Islamic revolution. Addressing more than one million mourners on ...

Iran has arrested a number of people, who had been working secretly for the Persian language service of the BBC, the Mehr News Agency reported on Monday. According to the informed source, a number of deceived people, who were tasked with collecting news and information in Iran for the BBC, have been arrested. The source said these people received ...

Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani has bolstered the initiative of his protg, President Rouhani, for cooperation with the US in the fight in Iraq against the Islamic State. Rafsanjani said on Sunday, The US acknowledges that if Iran does not help, this [US-led] coalition cannot eliminate the Islamic State. Like Rouhani, the former President, who ...

Tehran, Sept 5, IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokesperson denied reports on Iran?s agreement to cooperate with the US against ISIS. According to the report of Foreign Ministry Media Department on Friday, Marzeiyeh Afkham denied BBC?s report on Iran?s agreement to cooperate with the US against ISIS in Iraq. She added Iran?s stance has already been declared ...

Iran's Supreme Leader has approved co-operation with the US as part of the fight against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, sources have told BBC Persian. Ayatollah Khamenei has authorised his top commander to co-ordinate military operations with the US, Iraqi and Kurdish forces, sources in Tehran say. Iran has traditionally opposed US involvement in ...

It's the most widely watched factual TV programme in the world, according to Guinness World Records - Top Gear is watched in 214 territories, and dubbed into eight languages. One of the latest countries to succumb to its charms is, unexpectedly, Iran. When Mozaffar Shafeie, an Iranian actor living in London, was in Kurdistan a few weeks ago a whisper ...

Iran has freed 14 journalist working for reformist papers who were arrested in January and accused of cooperating with a "Western-linked network", the reformist Shargh newspaper reported on Sunday. The newspaper said the journalists were released from jail after posting bail, while four others were still behind bars. At the time of their arrest ...

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry released a statement on Tuesday February 19 referring to the discovery of a media network that, according to the ministry, is based inside BBC News and is linked to several Iranian reformist websites, such as Jaras and Kaleme. Iranian media report that the announcement indicates that recently detained journalists ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's official news agency is reporting authorities have arrested another group of local journalists accused of links with the BBC. The report by IRNA quotes a statement by the Intelligence Ministry. It did not say how many were detained. Last week Iran said it arrested 11 journalists on the same charge. Iran has repeatedly ...

The FINANCIAL -- European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Iran on Thursday to explain a wave of arrests of journalists and raids on newspaper offices. A statement issued by Ashton's office also said she was concerned by reports that Iran-based family members of BBC-Farsi journalists based in London have been harassed and that ...